If all you care about is the economics when it comes to parks and public lands, then you should want them, because setting aside and preserving nature is actually very good for The Economy.
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TheLetterHack livestream on THE US POSTAL SERVICE.
I went on TheLetterHack livestream this past week to talk about the US Postal Service, as a big fan of the postal service.
Return to Normalcy is not progress anyway.
I hope we all realize by now that nothing will ever be the same again, there’s no normal to return to, and let’s face it normal was never all it was cracked up to be. On the anniversary of the pandemic declaration by the WHO, I’m reflecting on the fact that nothing has really ever […]
Medicaid info town hall by Pennsylvania state Rep Kosierowski.
I listened to the whole thing in case you can’t or don’t want to. (Voila, you can thank me later!)
The mass firing of federal workers is a privatization boondoggle to rip off taxpayers and put us into company towns.
It couldn’t be clearer that the whole purpose of firing all these staff is to privatize everything by force, and follow through with their plans to form corporate fiefdoms.
There is no real substitute for case surveillance.
Cases in case surveillance means a count of actual diagnosed cases of a disease. National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) What is Case Surveillance? Case surveillance is foundational to public health practice. It helps us to understand diseases and their spread and determine appropriate actions to control outbreaks. Case surveillance occurs each time public health […]
CFPB was setting right decades of wrongs, but Elon Musk decided it all belongs to him.
CFPB has been making rules to stop bad actors ripping us off in the financial system. Who gains by supporting rip-offs of the American people exactly?
Trump admin ramps up push for butts in seats downtown for fossil fuel & commercial real estate.
Government Executive – Agencies to soon detail how they will overcome unions, office space issues to bring all staff in-person The White House and OPM are asking for specifics in how agencies will comply with Trump’s return-to-office order. January 27, 2025 Eric Katz Senior Correspondent ‘You have to show up to work, basically,” Trump said. “You […]
Less regulation, more misinfo, buyer beware.
In an era of rampant medical misinformation, health claims need scrutiny. Any claim made really – slow down and consider it.
Kash Patel to work from home while Trump claims federal employees who telework are “not working”.
And wow, I wonder why he wants to work from this home so bad, which isn’t even his own.
Another “Manifest Destiny” – in space.
Universe, Discovered weekly newsletter from Dave Eicher, editor-in-chief of Astronomy wrote about the Trump administration’s declaration of pursuit of “manifest destiny into the stars”, saying “Manifest Destiny” of course refers to the 19th-Century American movement that fueled the expansion of the United States across the continent to seize territory, displace Native Americans, cook up a war […]
Dark money has been trying to dismantle the EPA for years.
The EPA is not supposed to consider business, only the effects to public health.
They can’t even make books right anymore, commerce is crap.
“you can actually see how far he got into it before he realized that he’s missing like 60 Pages”
When it’s Family, it’s nepotism.
NBC News – Secretive Christian group at heart of D.C. politics ready for its close-up in Netflix docuseries “The Family” puts the spotlight on the enigmatic Fellowship Foundation, the Christian group behind the National Prayer Breakfast. Aug. 9, 2019 By Ethan Sacks While the annual event is purportedly hosted by members of Congress, it is actually […]
Next year’s flu shots are at risk as well as the development of new vaccines.
It’s like people have been walking into this with normalcy bias.
Corporate greed always stands in the way of public health progress.
People should be prioritized over profits when it comes to medicine.
Air out the particle board furniture.
The government needs to regulate formaldehyde, including in furniture, as it’s a health hazard.
Cryptocurrency is bad – it’s a vehicle for hurting people.
It’s bad for the environment and the society that all us people have to live. I agree at this point that any politician on board with crypto is siding with the baddies. The AI Coup & Trump’s CEO-Dictator Playbook w/ Gil Duran | MR Live – 2/11/25 The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder Gil Duran: “Any […]
James Carville is pushing Accelerationism.
Apocalyptic hopium isn’t just lazy or bizarre, it’s curious and we should all be suspicious when it’s pushed.
It’s a mistake to assume any of it is a mistake.
They really are actual eugenicists. Didn’t those salutes tip you off?
Jellyfish Rob Bresnahan folds like a cheap lawn chair and breaks promise to not cut Medicaid.
My representative in Congress, Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R, PA-08), had promised not to vote for cuts to Medicaid, and was quoted saying, “If a bill is put in front of me that guts the benefits my neighbors rely on, I will not vote for it.” And yet, he voted for the bill that mathematically would have to cut Medicaid.